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מְכֵרָה

mᵉkêrâh · H4380 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence

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Thing

Meanings

  1. sword

    The meaning is unsure, but possibly an offensive weapon with a long blade for cutting or thrusting, made of iron, used in warfare and a symbol of aggression

    Examples

    Genesis 49:5 “Simeon and Levi are brothers; Their swords are implements of violence.

  2. plan

    Decision concerning a set of actions that one is going to perform in order to achieve a particular purpose; only used in a negative sense

    Examples

    Genesis 49:5 “Simeon and Levi are brothers; Their swords are implements of violence.

How it’s used In 2 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 2 entries
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מְכֵרָה, occurring once in Genesis 49:5, appears in Jacob's blessing describing Simeon and Levi's "swords" as "implements of violence," classing the word among weapon-related terms rather than its traditional "habitation" gloss.
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The fact-packet data also assigns the Think domain here, likely reflecting the premeditated, calculated violence Jacob condemns in this same verse ("let my soul not enter into their council"), though this rests on the surrounding context rather than the word itself.
Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

מְכֵרָהmᵉkêrâh · H4380מְכֵרָתִי Mᵉkêrâthîy · H4382 · Mecherathite, of Mecherah · 1×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4380. mekerah [מְכֵרָה] noun [feminine] probably the name of a weapon, only plural…
H4380. mekerah
[מְכֵרָה] noun [feminine] probably the name of a weapon, only plural suffix מְכֵרֹתֵיהֶם חָמָס כְּלֵי Gen 49:5 weapons of violence are their ׳מ (other conjectures see in Di).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Weapons1 occurrenceThink1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

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